Global Engineering (B.G.E.) (127 credits)

Entrepreneurship Essentials for Non-Management Students.

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Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key components of starting and managing a business.

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Communication in Engineering.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Written and oral communication in Engineering (in English): strategies for generating, developing, organizing, and presenting ideas in a technical setting; problem-solving; communicating to different audiences; editing and revising; and public speaking. Course work based on academic, technical, and professional writing in engineering.

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Industrial Practicum 1.

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12 to 16 weeks of full-time remunerated engineering-related work in private or public practice.

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Responsibilities of the Professional Engineer.

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A course designed to provide all Engineering students with further training regarding their responsibilities as future Professional Engineers. Particular focus will be placed on three professional characteristics that future engineers must demonstrate: i) professionalism, ii) ethical and equitable behaviour, and iii) consideration of the impact of engineering on society and the environment.

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Engineering Economy.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Introduction to the basic concepts required for the economic assessment of engineering projects. Topics include: accounting methods, marginal analysis, cash flow and time value of money, taxation and depreciation, discounted cash flow analysis techniques, cost of capital, inflation, sensitivity and risk analysis, analysis of R and D, ongoing as well as new investment opportunities.

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Engineering Professional Practice.

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Laws, regulations and codes governing engineering professional practice. Responsibility and liability. Environmental legislation. Project and organization management. Relations between engineer and client. Technical practice - analysis, design, execution and operation.

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Introduction to Physical Molecular and Cell Biology.

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An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.

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Data Analysis and Design of Experiments.

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Foundation of the design and execution of experiments based on statistical principles and of the results analysis. Topics: Data visualization, significant digits; uncertainty, precision, accuracy, propagation of uncertainty; univariate data analysis, normal distribution; sampling distribution and point estimates, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing; simple and multiple linear regression; design of experiments.

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Solid Mechanics.

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Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.

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Introduction to Signals and Systems.

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Review of complex functions. Discrete-and continuous-time signals, basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems, convolution. Fourier series and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain analysis, filtering, sampling. Laplace transforms and inversion, transfer functions, poles and zeros, solutions of linear constant-coefficient differential equations, transient and steady-state response. Z-transforms.

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Engineering Design Project.

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Teams work in consultation with faculty members and/o rindustrial consultants, and under the supervision of the course instructor, in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality in which professional engineering practices are followed.

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Engineering Design Project.

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See FACC 463D1 for course description.

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Mechanics 2.

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Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Particle dynamics: force-momentum and work-energy approaches. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.

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Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering.

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Numerical techniques for problems commonly encountered in Mechanical Engineering are presented. Chebyshev interpolation, quadrature, roots of equations in one or more variables, matrices, curve fitting, splines and ordinary differential equations. The emphasis is on the analysis and understanding of the problem rather than the details of the actual numerical program.

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Materials Science and Engineering.

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Structure properties and fabrication of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites; engineering properties: tensile, fracture, creep, oxidation, corrosion, friction, wear; fabrication and joining methods; principles of materials selection.

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Structure of Materials.

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Classification of materials, electrons in atoms, molecules and solids, bonding in solids, elements of crystallography, common crystal structures, atoms positions, directions and planes in crystal structures, defects in crystalline solids, point defects, dislocations, structure of polycrystalline materials, grains, grain boundaries, non-crystalline solids.

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Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics.

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Basic mechanics of biological building blocks, focusing on the cytoskeleton, with examples from pathology. At the macromolecular level: weak/variable crosslinking and hydrolysis driven athermal processes. At the cellular/tissue level: cell architecture and function. Discussion of modern analytical techniques capable of single-molecule to tissue scale measurements.

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Elements of Biotechnology.

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Biological macromolecules; cell structure and metabolism; industrially significant microbes; enzyme kinetics; introduction to molecular biology and genetic engineering, laboratory exercises.

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Introduction to Communication Systems and Networks.

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Information and bandwidth, signals, modulation and noise, transmission and switching. Principles of layered design and the OSI model, measures of performance. Information sources and services. Application, Presentation and Session layers. Transport and Network layers. Data link layer and multi-user communication. Physical layer and transmission techniques. Wireline and wireless transmission media. Core (Backbone), and Access Communication Networks. Communication network classification. Laboratory work involving analog and digital transmission techniques.

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Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.

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Divergence, gradient and curl. The divergence theorem and Stokes’ theorem. Maxwell’s equations in integral and differential form. Waves in free space and on transmission lines. Electric and magnetic force and energy. Magnetic materials. Faraday's law. Applications to engineering problems. S-parameters.

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Fluid Mechanics 1.

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Physical properties of fluids. Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: stress in a continuum, rates of strain, rotation. Control volume analysis; conservation of mass, linear momentum and energy; Euler and Bernoulli equations; Flow measurement. Dimensional analysis and dynamical similarity. Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers.

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Heat, Mass and Fluid Flow.

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Fluid statics and dynamics. Newton's laws of viscosity and motion, control volume analyses. Navier Stokes, Euler. Bemoulli and Steady Flow Energy Equations. turbulence and Reynolds stress equations. Molecular conduction/diffusion processes in heat and mass transfer). Convective flows. Transport coefficients in slags, metals and gases. Radiative heat transfer. Transient/steady state flow.

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Foundations of Sustainability for Engineering and Design.

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Perspectives and debates from different disciplines and fields on sustainability and how it may be conceptualized, operationalized and evaluated; its implications for problem formulation and policy analysis, ethical considerations and strategies of implementation related to engineering and design; the need for integrating multiple perspectives and dimensions; stakeholder perspectives.

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Energy Analysis.

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Critical analysis of the importance of energy to society, the unsustainability of the current energy system, and potential options for a sustainable energy system. Topics include: peak oil and climate change, fundamental energy metrics, traditional and alternative primary and secondary power systems, and energy storage technologies. Quantitative energy analysis is applied to a set of case studies investigating energy use, energy generation, and energy storage and transport.

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Climate Change Adaptation and Engineering Infrastructure .

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Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various engineering systems including infrastructure systems.

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Decision-Making for Sustainability in Engineering and Design.

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Role and importance of engineering decisions of environmental, social, and economic problems and the application of decision-making approaches and tools to engineering sustainability. Multi-criteria decision-making, uncertainty analysis, game theory, sustainability metrics, life cycle analysis evaluation and impact assessment methodologies, design problem formulation, stage-dependent strategies, case studies.

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Electrical and Optical Properties of Biological Systems.

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Mechanisms of optical and electrical detection, transmission, and processing in biology. Vision, luminescence, photosynthesis, nerve conduction, ion channels. Speciation and evolutionary optimization as a design platform. Biomimetic opto-electric engineering. Optics and electronics in instrumentation for biological measurements.

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Introduction to Physical Molecular and Cell Biology.

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An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.

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Bioanalytical Methods in Bioengineering.

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Survey of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and their relevance to bioengineering. Techniques for the determination and experimental analysis of chemical metabolites and biological macromolecules emphasizing the following subjects: analytical process, common analytical tools, chemical equilibrium, basic spectroscopy, chromatography and separation methods, metabolite and protein extraction, protein purification methods and quantitative determination, high performance liquid chromatography, western blotting. An introduction to modern instrumental analysis highlighting gas- and liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry and computational data analysis. Strengths and weaknesses of each method.

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Bioengineering Measurement Laboratory.

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Laboratory safety. Conceptual understanding of measurement principles and instrumentation. Introduction to experimental techniques requiring sterile conditions. Mechanical measurements of solid and thermofluid quantities. Optical sensing techniques. Measurements of biological and chemical properties. Design of experiments and statistical and uncertainty analyses.

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Thermodynamics in Bioengineering.

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Fundamental concepts of Thermodynamics: Internal Energy, Work, The three Laws of Thermodynamics, Enthalpy, and Entropy. Basic concepts of energy in living organisms: distribution of energy, energy conservation in living organisms, isothermal systems, Gibbs free energy in chemical coupling, reversible processes and redox reactions. Application of Thermodynamics in defining biological processes and components such as hydrolysis, osmosis, ELISA, PCR, DNA, amino acids, proteins.

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Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems 1.

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Basic concepts in transport phenomena, including fluid dynamics (momentum transport) and heat transfer (energy transport), with applications to biological systems, both medical and non-medical. Topics in fluid dynamics include: properties of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; dimensional analysis; drag; integral/macroscopic balances (Bernoulli's equation and linear momentum theorem); differential/microscopic balances (continuity and Navier-Stokes equations); boundary layer approximations; turbulence. Topics in heat transfer include elements of conduction and convection.

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Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems 2.

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Fundamental principles of mass transport and its application to a variety of biological systems. Membrane permeability and diffusive transport. Convection. Transport across cell membranes. Ion channels. Blood rheology. Active transport. Intra- and inter-cellular transport.

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Biosignals, Systems and Control.

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Discrete- and continuous-time signals; basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems; convolution. Frequency domain analysis; filtering; sampling. Laplace and Fourier transforms; transfer functions; poles and zeros; transient and steady state response. Z-transforms. Dynamic behaviour and PID control of first- and second-order processes. Stability. Applications to biological systems, such as central nervous, cognitive, and motor systems.

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Physical Chemistry in Bioengineering.

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Description of chemical systems with the help of theories of physics and application of its techniques: reaction kinetics, physical and chemical equilibria in biological systems. Review of energy transfer and thermodynamics. Chemical and physical equilibria in biology: variation of Gibbs energy with temperature, energy, composition. Theories of reaction kinetics and the reaction mechanism in biological phenomena: polymerization, protein folding, enzymes.

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Bioengineering Laboratory.

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Introduction to the fundamental principles of experimental design, statistical analysis, and scientific communications applied to bioengineering research.Laboratory topics include: DNA engineering and cloning, in vitro motility assays, mammalian cell culture and immunofluorescence, and microfabrication.

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Biodevices Design for Diagnostics and Screening.

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Design of analytical devices for high throughput screening (HTS) for genomics, proteomics and other “omics” applications; and for diagnostics for medical, veterinary, or environmental applications. Assessment of the specific requirements of each 'client' applications, followed by a review of specific regulations and guidelines. Theoretical and practical guidelines regarding the design of a specific micro- or nano-device, and comparison with the established state of the art in the chosen application.

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Bioengineering Design Project.

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A capstone group design project on an industrially relevant engineering problem of a biological nature. Student teams work in consultation with faculty and industrial consultants in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations.

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Bioengineering Design Project.

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A capstone group design project on an industrially relevant engineering problem of a biological nature. Student teams work in consultation with faculty and industrial consultants in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations.

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Chemical Engineering Principles 1.

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Introduction to the design of industrial processes. Survey of unit operations, and systems of units. Elementary material balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, use of property tables and charts, steady flow processes. Relationships between thermodynamic properties, property estimation techniques. Laboratory and design exercise.

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Chemical Engineering Principles 2.

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Material and energy balances in chemical processes. Introduction to process design. Problem solving in the design of various industrial processes such as combustion, humidification, separation processes (evaporation, crystallization), and other reactive systems used in the diverse areas of chemical engineering.

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Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.

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Application of thermodynamic equilibrium; free energy and equilibrium; phase rule; chemical reaction equilibrium for homogenous and multicomponent/multiphase systems. Application to the design of binary distillation. Laboratory exercise.

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Instrumentation and Measurement 1.

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Introductions to safe laboratory practices, technical report-writing, electrically-based measurements and modern methods for instrumentation and control. Goals are that students can safely perform accurate measurements of physical variables without detailed theoretical knowledge. Common software for report writing and instrumentation are introduced and used extensively.

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Fluid Mechanics.

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Fluid properties; dimensional analysis; drag; packed/fluidized beds; macroscopic energy balances, Bernoulli's equation and linear momentum theorem; flowmeters, pipeline systems, non-Newtonian fluids, microscopic balances leading to continuity and Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layer approximation; turbulence. Laboratory exercises.

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Heat and Mass Transfer.

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Transport of heat and mass by diffusion and convection; transport of heat by radiation; diffusion; convective mass transfer; drying; absorption; mathematical formulation of problems and equipment design for heat and mass transfer; laboratory exercises.

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Separation Processes.

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Concepts underlying equilibrium based separation, design of processes and equipment for distillation, absorption/stripping, liquid extraction, washing, and leaching. Consideration of mass transfer effects.

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Materials Science.

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Structure/property relationship for metals, ceramics, polymers and composite materials. Atomic and molecular structure, bonds, electronic band structure and semi-conductors. Order in solids: crystal structure, disorders, solid phases. Mechanical properties and fracture, physico-chemical properties, design. Laboratory exercises.

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Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering.

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Linear systems of algebraic equations, Gaussian elimination; non-linear algebraic systems: Taylor series, incremental search, bisection method, linear interpolation, Newton-Raphson's method; differentiation and integration; initial value problems: Euler's and Runge Kutta's methods, stiff equations, adaptive solvers; boundary value problems; curve fitting; numerical optimization; probability theory and stochastic simulation: Monte Carlo method.

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Chemical Reaction Engineering.

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Review of fundamental concepts in chemical reaction thermodynamics and kinetics. Mass and energy balances for homogenous ideal reactors. Batch, semi-batch and continuous operation. Minimization of by-product and pollution production. Heterogenous reactions, effect of heat and mass transfer on the global rate. Laboratory exercises.

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Process Design.

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The role of the chemical engineer. Steps in the preparation of a process design. Detailed information about most common chemical engineering equipment. Materials of construction. Analysis of process control and application to large systems. Structure of process design systems. Safety, environmental control in plant design. Process design costing and return on investment. Computer-aided process and plant design programs.

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Topics in Organic Chemistry.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.

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Engineering Design Project.

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Teams work in consultation with faculty members and/o rindustrial consultants, and under the supervision of the course instructor, in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality in which professional engineering practices are followed.

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Engineering Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See FACC 463D1 for course description.

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Construction Materials.

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Classification of materials; atomic bonds; phase diagrams; elementary crystallography;imperfections; engineering properties, uses and durability of metals, concrete, wood, polymers, composites and asphalt; sustainable development; group laboratory projects.

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Solid Mechanics.

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Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.

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Environmental Engineering.

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Introduction to environmental chemistry; mass balance analyses in engineered and natural systems; water, soil and air pollution characterization and control; water quality parameters; drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; global climate change: possible causes and effects; risk assessment for pollutant exposure; solid- and hazardous-waste management.

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Geotechnical Mechanics.

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The origin and formation of soils. Soil classification systems and phase composition in soils. Stress states in geotechnical materials. Total stresses, pore fluid pressures and effective stresses. Terzaghi’s concept of effective stresses. Time-dependent influences of pore pressure development during loading. Water flow in porous media. Darcy’s law. Laboratory and field measurement of hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic conductivity of soil composites. Deformation of geomaterials. Elastic deformations and consolidation behaviour. Failure of soils. The Mohr-Coulomb criterion. Stress paths. Dilatancy, Taylor’s interpretation of stress dilatancy and applications.

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Structural Engineering 1.

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The design process; loads, sources, classifications, load factors, combinations; limit states design; structural systems and foundations; choice of materials; virtual work and energy methods; statical and kinematic indeterminacy; slope deflection method, introduction to matrix methods; analysis of indeterminate systems; force envelopes.

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Structural Engineering 2.

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Durability and service life; fire resistance and protection; steel, reinforced concrete and timber; behaviour and design of components in tension, compression, bending and shear; slenderness, global and local instability; axial load and moment interaction; curvature, deflection, ductility; connections; bond and anchorage of reinforcement; simple footings.

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Transportation Engineering.

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Introduction to design and operating principles and procedures for surface transportation systems, including vehicle motion and performance, pavements, geometric design of roadbeds, vehicle flow and capacity, traffic control, demand, supply and cost concepts.

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Hydrology and Water Resources.

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Precipitation, evaporation and transpiration. Streamflow, storage reservoirs, flood routing. Groundwater hydrology. Ecohydrology. Statistical analysis in hydrology, stochastic modelling. Simulations using hydrologic models. Case studies in flood damage mitigation, surface and ground water management, and water-energy-food nexus.

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Sustainable Project Management.

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Lifecycle approach to project and construction management. Sustainable practices are introduced at all project stages: Team formation, materials and equipment use, cost estimation and economic valuation, financing, scheduling, quality control and safety, monitoring and performance assessment, decision-making.

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Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics.

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Fluid properties; hydrostatics; dimensional analysis and similitude, fluxes of mass, momentum and energy; Bemoulli's equation; method of control volume; streamline curvature; potential flow and boundary layers; pipe flow, hydraulic machinery and introduction to open-channel flow.

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General Geology.

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An introductory course in physical geology designed for majors in civil and mining engineering. Properties of rocks and minerals, major geological processes, together with natural hazards and their effects on engineered structures are emphasized. The laboratory is an integral part of the course which includes rock and mineral identification, basic techniques of airphoto and geological map interpretation, and structural geology.

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Engineering Design Project.

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Teams work in consultation with faculty members and/o rindustrial consultants, and under the supervision of the course instructor, in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality in which professional engineering practices are followed.

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Engineering Design Project.

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See FACC 463D1 for course description.

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Design Graphics.

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The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.

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Algorithms and Data Structures.

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Data Structures: priority queues, balanced binary search trees, hash tables, graphs. Algorithms: topological sort, connected components, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, bipartite matching, network flows. Algorithm design: greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, randomization. Mathematicaltools: proofs of asymptotic complexity and program correctness, Master theorem.

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Algorithm Design.

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Advanced algorithm design and analysis. Linear programming, complexity and NP-completeness, advanced algorithmic techniques.

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Database Systems.

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Database Design: conceptual design of databases (e.g., entity-relationship model), relational data model, functional dependencies. Database Manipulation: relational algebra, SQL, database application programming, triggers, access control. Database Implementation: transactions, concurrency control, recovery, query execution and query optimization.

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Model-Based Programming.

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Integration of modelling with programming; abstraction in software engineering; structural modelling; state-based modelling; modelling of object-oriented systems, code generation; natural language constraints in modelling notations; architectural and design patterns; integrated development environments; programming tools (debugging, continuous build/integration, version control and code repositories, diff, defect and issue tracking, refactoring); code review processes.

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Introduction to Software Engineering.

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Design, development and testing of software systems. Software life cycle: requirements analysis, software architecture and design, implementation, integration, test planning, and maintenance. The course involves a group project.

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Numerical Methods in Engineering.

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Number representation and numerical error. Symbolic vs. numerical computation. Curve fitting and interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Optimization. Data science pipelines and data-driven approaches. Preliminary machine learning. Solutions of systems of linear equations and nonlinear equations. Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. Applications in engineering, physical simulation, CAD, machine learning and digital media.

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Software Engineering Practice.

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Software engineering practice in industry, related to the design and commissioning of large software systems. Ethical, social, economic, safety and legal issues. Metrics, project management, costing, marketing, control, standards, CASE tools and bugs. The course involves a large team project.

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Capstone Design Project.

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A design project undertaken with close mentorship by a staff member and under the supervision of the course instructor. The project consists of defining an engineering problem, reviewing relevant background, acquiring/analyzing data, and seeking solutions using appropriate simulation/analysis tools and experimental investigations. Professional engineering practices will be followed.

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Capstone Design Project.

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See ECSE 458D1 for course description.

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Optimization and Optimal Control.

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General introduction to optimization methods including steepest descent, conjugate gradient, Newton algorithms. Generalized matrix inverses and the least squared error problem. Introduction to constrained optimality; convexity and duality; interior point methods. Introduction to dynamic optimization; existence theory, relaxed controls, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Sufficiency of the Maximum Principle.

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Probability and Random Signals 2.

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Multivariate Gaussian distributions; finite-dimensional mean-square estimation (multivariate case); principal components; introduction to random processes; weak stationarity: correlation functions, spectra, linear processing and estimation; Poisson processes and Markov chains: state processes, invariant distributions; stochastic simulation.

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Artificial Intelligence.

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Design principles of autonomous agents, agent architectures, machine learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and multi-agent collaboration. The course includes a term project that consists of designing and implementing software agents that collaborate and compete in a simulated environment.

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Machine Learning for Engineers.

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Introduction to machine learning: challenges and fundamental concepts. Supervised learning: Regression and Classification. Unsupervised learning. Curse of dimensionality: dimension reduction and feature selection. Error estimation and empirical validation. Emphasis on good methods and practices for deployment of real systems.

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Deep Learning.

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Overview of mathematical background and basics of machine learning, deep feedforward networks, regularization for deep learning, optimization for training deep learning models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, practical considerations,applications of deep learning, recent models and architectures in deep learning.

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Discrete Structures.

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Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.

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Engineering Systems Optimization.

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Introduction to systems-oriented engineering design optimization. Emphasis on i) understanding and representing engineering systems and their structure, ii) obtaining, developing, and managing adequate computational (physics- and data-based) models for their analysis, iii) constructing appropriate design models for their synthesis, and iv) applying suitable algorithms for their numerical optimization while accounting for systems integration issues. Advanced topics such as coordination of distributed problems and non-deterministic design optimization methods.

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Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.

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A comprehensive introduction to important algorithms in sensitivity analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization of large systems. Topics include: unconstrained and constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis, gradient-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, and various multidisciplinary algorithms and approaches for design optimization.

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Introduction to Signals and Systems.

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Review of complex functions. Discrete-and continuous-time signals, basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems, convolution. Fourier series and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain analysis, filtering, sampling. Laplace transforms and inversion, transfer functions, poles and zeros, solutions of linear constant-coefficient differential equations, transient and steady-state response. Z-transforms.

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Electric Circuits 2.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Second-order circuits. Sinusoidal sources and phasors. AC steady-state analysis. AC steady-state power. Laplace transform. Circuit analysis in the s-Domain. Two-port circuits. Elementary continuous signals, impulse functions, basic properties of continuous linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Frequency analysis of continuous-time LTI systems.

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Digital Logic.

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An introduction to digital logic, binary numbers and Boolean algebra, combinational circuits, optimized implementation of combinational circuits, arithmetic circuits, combinational circuit building blocks, flip-flops, registers, counters, design of digital circuits with VHDL, and synchronous sequential circuits.

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Linear Systems and Control.

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Modelling and simulation of control systems, review of LTI systems, time response of first and second order systems, state space modeling, controllability, state feedback and pole placement, observability, observer design, and output feedback, block diagrams and their simplification, Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion, system type and steady state errors, Bode plots, Nyquist plots, Nyquist stability criterion, gain and phase margins, lead-lag compensators. Lab work involving step response, frequency response, system identification, state feedback, output feedback, and lead-lag compensators.

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Introduction to Communication Systems and Networks.

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Information and bandwidth, signals, modulation and noise, transmission and switching. Principles of layered design and the OSI model, measures of performance. Information sources and services. Application, Presentation and Session layers. Transport and Network layers. Data link layer and multi-user communication. Physical layer and transmission techniques. Wireline and wireless transmission media. Core (Backbone), and Access Communication Networks. Communication network classification. Laboratory work involving analog and digital transmission techniques.

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Computer Organization.

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Basic computer structures; instruction set architecture; assembly language; input/output; memory; software; processor implementation; computer arithmetic. Lab work involving assembly language level programming of single-board computers.

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Electronics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to electronic circuits using operational amplifiers, PN junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), and MOS field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), including: terminal characteristics, large- and small-signal models; configuration and frequency response of amplifiers with discrete biasing. Introduction to SPICE. Lab work involving simulation experiments and testing of simple circuits using discrete transistors.

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Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Number representation and numerical error. Symbolic vs. numerical computation. Curve fitting and interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Optimization. Data science pipelines and data-driven approaches. Preliminary machine learning. Solutions of systems of linear equations and nonlinear equations. Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. Applications in engineering, physical simulation, CAD, machine learning and digital media.

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Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Divergence, gradient and curl. The divergence theorem and Stokes’ theorem. Maxwell’s equations in integral and differential form. Waves in free space and on transmission lines. Electric and magnetic force and energy. Magnetic materials. Faraday's law. Applications to engineering problems. S-parameters.

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Fundamentals of Power Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Characteristics and components of power systems. Generation, transmission and utilization of electric power. 3-phase ac and dc systems. Fundamentals of electromechanical energy conversion. Ampere and Faraday's law. Magnetic circuits. Mutual inductance and transformers. Torque and force. Rotating magnetic fields. Basic rotating machines. Lab work involving techniques of electric power, efficiency, torque, and speed measurements.

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Discrete Time Signal Processing.

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Discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier and Z-transform analysis techniques, the discrete Fourier transform; elements of FIR and IIR filter design, filter structures; FFT techniques for high speed convolution; quantization effects.

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Capstone Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A design project undertaken with close mentorship by a staff member and under the supervision of the course instructor. The project consists of defining an engineering problem, reviewing relevant background, acquiring/analyzing data, and seeking solutions using appropriate simulation/analysis tools and experimental investigations. Professional engineering practices will be followed.

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Capstone Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See ECSE 458D1 for course description.

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Introduction Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course considers issues relevant to the design of robotic and of intelligent systems. How can robots move and interact. Robotic hardware systems. Kinematics and inverse kinematics. Sensors, sensor data interpretation and sensor fusion. Path planning. Configuration spaces. Position estimation. Intelligent systems. Spatial mapping. Multi-agent systems. Applications.

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Microelectronics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Single-stage integrated-circuit amplifiers; differential and multistage amplifiers, integrated-circuit biasing techniques; non-ideal characteristics, frequency response; feedback amplifiers, output stages; digital CMOS logic circuits. Lab work on designing, building, and debugging electronic hardware using discrete transistors and circuit building blocks

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Control.

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Stability of linear and non-linear systems, controllability, state space models, canonical forms, state space design of controllers, pole placement, LQR, observability, Luenberger observer, separation principle and certainty equivalence, loop transfer recovery, correspondence between system theoretic results for continuous- and discrete-time systems. Lab work involving applications of PID, lead-lag, full state feedback and LQR controllers to robotic devices.

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Communication Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Communication system models; AM and FM modulation, performance of AM and FM systems in noise; sampling, FDM and TDM multiplexing systems; baseband and pass-band digital transmission over noisy band-limited channels, digital modulation and detection techniques and their quantitative performance; concepts of entropy and channel capacity, selected data compression and error-control coding techniques. Illustrative examples taken from subscriber loop telephone systems, evolution of internet modems and wireless cellular phone standards. Lab work involving measurement of the performance of AM and FM systems with noise, digital modulation techniques and spectra, experiments with basic error control coding systems.

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Telecommunication Networks.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Architecture and protocols of contemporary networks; wired and wireless access systems; flow and congestion control; network optimization; randomized multiple access protocols; queueing disciplines; low-power wireless networks. Examples: Ethernet, TCP/IP, 802.11, 802.15.4. Lab experiments addressing routing protocols, TCP, queuing disciplines and quality-of-service, and network security.

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Physical Basis of Transistor Devices.

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Quantitative analysis of diodes and transistors. Semiconductor fundamentals, equilibrium and non-equilibrium carrier transport, and Fermi levels. PN junction diodes, the ideal diode, and diode switching. Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), physics of the ideal BJT, the Ebers-Moll model. Field effect transistors, metal-oxide semiconductor structures, static and dynamic behaviour, small-signal models. Laboratory experiments.

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Microprocessors.

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Design techniques for developing modern microprocessor-based systems, multiple state-of-art instructions set architectures (ISAs) and associated assembly languages, use of tools for compiling, linking, memory overlay; debug techniques for start-stop and real-time debugging, together with debug infrastructure and interfaces: flash patching, variable watching and instruction stream tracing. Use of coprocessors and computer peripherals, such as SPI, I2C, I2S, SAI, USB, wireless standards, timers, DMA units and FLASH accelerators. Interfacing and processing sensor data including multi-sensor integration. Design techniques that promote structured approaches for separation of concerns in computing and communication. Real-time systems and software engineering for tightly integrated hardware.

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Electromechanical and Static Conversion Systems.

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Lumped parameter concepts of electromechanics. Reference frame theory and derivation of current and torque equations. Examples of AC electric machines: synchronous and induction types. Steady-state, transient and stability analysis. Power electronic voltage and frequency converters. Variable speed drives and generation systems. Laboratory work involving electric machine parameters, operation and power electronic control.

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System Dynamics and Control.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Modelling of physical linear time-invariant systems using transfer functions. Transient and steady-state response specifications. State space representation of systems. Frequency-response characterization. Stability. Feedback control systems. PID controller design. Root locus and frequency response design methods. Lead, lag and PID compensators.

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Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Historical development and applications of robotic manipulators. Homogeneous transformations and geometry. Forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator Jacobian. Newton-Euler and Lagrangian formulations of inverse and forward dynamics. Trajectory planning for pick-and-place operations. Linear independent joint control and nonlinear model-based control schemes.

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Mechanics of Robotic Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.

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Properties of Materials in Electrical Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Properties of a material continuum and crystalline state; properties of atoms in materials; conduction electrons in materials; electronic properties of semiconductors and metals; magnetic and thermal properties of materials; applications of electronic materials in semiconductor technology, recording media and transducers.

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Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering.

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Forward and reverse engineering of biomolecular systems. Principles of biomolecular thermodynamics and kinetics. Structure and function of the main classes of biomolecules including proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. Biomolecular systems as mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems. Rational design and evolutionary methods for engineering functional proteins, nucleic acids, and gene circuits. Rational design topics include molecular modeling, positive and negative design paradigms, simulation and optimization of equilibrium and kinetic properties, design of catalysts, sensors, motors, and circuits. Evolutionary design topics include evolutionary mechanisms, fitness landscapes, directed evolution of proteins, metabolic pathways, and gene circuits. Systems biology and synthetic biology.

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Data Analysis and Design of Experiments.

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Foundation of the design and execution of experiments based on statistical principles and of the results analysis. Topics: Data visualization, significant digits; uncertainty, precision, accuracy, propagation of uncertainty; univariate data analysis, normal distribution; sampling distribution and point estimates, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing; simple and multiple linear regression; design of experiments.

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Solid Mechanics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.

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Introduction to Signals and Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Review of complex functions. Discrete-and continuous-time signals, basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems, convolution. Fourier series and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain analysis, filtering, sampling. Laplace transforms and inversion, transfer functions, poles and zeros, solutions of linear constant-coefficient differential equations, transient and steady-state response. Z-transforms.

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Introduction to Communication Systems and Networks.

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Information and bandwidth, signals, modulation and noise, transmission and switching. Principles of layered design and the OSI model, measures of performance. Information sources and services. Application, Presentation and Session layers. Transport and Network layers. Data link layer and multi-user communication. Physical layer and transmission techniques. Wireline and wireless transmission media. Core (Backbone), and Access Communication Networks. Communication network classification. Laboratory work involving analog and digital transmission techniques.

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Engineering Design Project.

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Teams work in consultation with faculty members and/o rindustrial consultants, and under the supervision of the course instructor, in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality in which professional engineering practices are followed.

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Engineering Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See FACC 463D1 for course description.

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Technology Business Plan Design.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course combines several management functional areas such as marketing, financial, operations and strategy with the skills of creativity, engineering innovation, leadership and communications. Students learn how to design an effective and winning business plan around a technology or engineering project in small, medium or large enterprises.

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Technology Business Plan Project.

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Students work in teams to develop a comprehensive business plan project based on a technological or engineering innovation while utilizing site visits.

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Mechanics 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Particle dynamics: force-momentum and work-energy approaches. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.

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Design Graphics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.

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Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Study of the key aspects involved in starting and managing a new venture: identifying opportunities and analyzing new venture ideas, identifying common causes of failure and strategies for success, understanding intellectual property systems, comparison of multiple modes of funding. Applies to for-profit and not-for-profit start-ups.

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Materials Science and Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Structure properties and fabrication of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites; engineering properties: tensile, fracture, creep, oxidation, corrosion, friction, wear; fabrication and joining methods; principles of materials selection.

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Structure of Materials.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Classification of materials, electrons in atoms, molecules and solids, bonding in solids, elements of crystallography, common crystal structures, atoms positions, directions and planes in crystal structures, defects in crystalline solids, point defects, dislocations, structure of polycrystalline materials, grains, grain boundaries, non-crystalline solids.

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Heat, Mass and Fluid Flow.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Fluid statics and dynamics. Newton's laws of viscosity and motion, control volume analyses. Navier Stokes, Euler. Bemoulli and Steady Flow Energy Equations. turbulence and Reynolds stress equations. Molecular conduction/diffusion processes in heat and mass transfer). Convective flows. Transport coefficients in slags, metals and gases. Radiative heat transfer. Transient/steady state flow.

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Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Numerical techniques for problems commonly encountered in Mechanical Engineering are presented. Chebyshev interpolation, quadrature, roots of equations in one or more variables, matrices, curve fitting, splines and ordinary differential equations. The emphasis is on the analysis and understanding of the problem rather than the details of the actual numerical program.

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Technological Entrepreneurship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Concentrating on entrepreneurship and enterprise development, particular attention is given to the start-up, purchasing and management of small to medium-sized industrial firms. The focal point is in understanding the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs, resolving them, developing a business plan and the maximum utilization of the financial, marketing and human resources that make for a successful operation.

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Innovation for Non-Law Students.

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This course provides an introduction to the concept of innovation, its role in the economy, the institutions that foster or hinder it, the laws that promote or undermine it, and its historical, psychological and social context. Through a combination of interactive lectures students will explore the complexity of the subject and its connections with law, the economy, history, sciences and technology and government and firm policies. In addition, through small group projects, students will deploy and extend their knowledge by applying it to a particular proposed innovation.

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Entrepreneurship in Practice.

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Provides hands-on experience with the development of an entrepreneurial venture or a contribution to an existing entrepreneurial venture. Involves the creation of a venture development or business plan. Applicable to many kinds of new ventures, both private companies and social enterprises.

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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

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Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.

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Leadership.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Leadership theories provide students with opportunities to assess and work on improving their leadership skills. Topics include: the ability to know oneself as a leader, to formulate a vision, to have the courage to lead, to lead creatively, and to lead effectively with others.

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Engineering Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Teams work in consultation with faculty members and/o rindustrial consultants, and under the supervision of the course instructor, in the design of functional and practical systems, devices, or processes, taking into account safety, sustainability, management and economic considerations. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality in which professional engineering practices are followed.

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Engineering Design Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See FACC 463D1 for course description.

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Design Graphics for Mechanical Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to essential modern engineering design graphics skills. Basic knowledge of design graphics projection theory; perspective projections. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software and 3D parametric solid modeling techniques. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly methods. Standard geometric dimensioning and tolerancing techniques and their applications in the engineering drawings and engineering design.

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Engineering Thermodynamics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Macro versus microscopic approach: patterns of Nature. First and second laws and their uses. Property relationships: free energies, chemical potentials, activities, heat capacity. Chemical equilibrium. Reaction kinetics. Phase equilibrium for a pure substance. Experimental methods. Engineering applications: high-temperature metallurgical reactors, turbines, mixtures and solutions, phase diagrams, superconductivity.

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Introduction to Extractive Metallurgy.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to physical, hydrochemical, electrochemical and thermochemical processing in the production of metals and materials; description of the industries, basic processing concepts, unit operations and an introduction to environmental exchanges. Size reduction and classification, particle separation, stoichiometric and mass balance calculations, chemical equilibria, aqueous processing, smelting and refining.

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Structure of Materials.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Classification of materials, electrons in atoms, molecules and solids, bonding in solids, elements of crystallography, common crystal structures, atoms positions, directions and planes in crystal structures, defects in crystalline solids, point defects, dislocations, structure of polycrystalline materials, grains, grain boundaries, non-crystalline solids.

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Modelling and Automatic Control.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Mass and energy conservation laws. Dynamic versus steady state models, dynamic behaviour of first and higher order metallurgical systems, linear and nonlinear models, interacting and noninteracting systems. Laplace domain dynamics and transfer functions. Feedback control, control valves and controllers, transducers. Feedback-feedforward control, introduction to cascade, adaptive and statistical control strategies. Digital computer control, instruments and interfaces.

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Analytical and Characterization Techniques.

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Bulk, surface and microanalytical techniques for materials characterization. Bulk analysis: spectrophotometry using UV, visible, flame and atomic absorption, x-ray diffraction and x-ray fluorescence. Surface and microanalysis: infrared spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, Auger electron and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

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Introduction to Mineral Processing.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Theory and practice of unit operations including: size reduction-crushing and grinding; size separation-screening and classification; mineral separation-flotation, magnetic and gravity separation. Equipment and circuit design and selection. Mass balancing. Laboratory procedures: grindability, liberation, magnetic and gravity separation, flotation and solid-liquid separation.

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Hydrochemical Processing.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Analysis and description of dissolution (leaching), solute separation (solvent extraction, ion exchange, carbon adsorption) and deposition operations (precipitation, crystallization, electrolysis) in aqueous reaction media as these apply to: (i) the hydrometallurgical extraction of metals from primary/secondary sources; (ii) the treatment of effluents and (iii) the production of inorganic materials.

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Heat, Mass and Fluid Flow.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Fluid statics and dynamics. Newton's laws of viscosity and motion, control volume analyses. Navier Stokes, Euler. Bemoulli and Steady Flow Energy Equations. turbulence and Reynolds stress equations. Molecular conduction/diffusion processes in heat and mass transfer). Convective flows. Transport coefficients in slags, metals and gases. Radiative heat transfer. Transient/steady state flow.

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Phase Transformations: Solids.

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Free energy (equilibrium) and kinetic (non-equilibrium) considerations, phase diagrams and TTT diagrams, solid state diffusion, diffusional (nucleation and growth) and shear (martensitic) transformations.

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Advanced Process Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Transport phenomena in non-idealized systems. Solutions for transient heat and mass transfer processes involving thermal and molecular diffusion in materials processing systems. Natural and forced convection in heat and mass transfer. Dimensionless correlations. Fick's Laws and Fourier's Laws. Exact solutions. Numerical approximations for transient systems. Equivalences between heat and mass transfer. Finite difference modelling of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer and diffusion and convection mass transfer.

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Applications of Polymers.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Applications of synthetic and natural polymers and composites as engineering materials, e.g. in biomedical, automotive and aerospace applications. Thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers. Animal and plant origin, degradable and non-degradable polymers. Particulate and fibre reinforced polymer matrix composites. Manufacturing routes, and characterization tools for their physical, thermal, mechanical and chemical properties.

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Extractive Metallurgical Engineering.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Principle non-ferrous base-metal pyrometallurgical extraction processes, relevant thermodynamics, heat and mass balances, transport phenomena (copper, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, magnesium). Ores, gangue, fuels, slag, fluxes, recovery, refining, minor elements, byproducts and the environment. Roasting, drying, smelting, converting, reverberatory furnaces, flash furnaces, continuous and batch operations, injection practices and oxygen enrichment. Simulation, modelling, control and optimization.

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Mechanical Properties.

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Stress-strain behaviour. Elasticity and plasticity of metals, ceramics and polymers. Dislocations theory. Single crystal and polycrystalline slip. Mechanical twinning. Strengthening mechanisms. Process-property and microstructure-property relationships. Notch toughness and fracture mechanics. Failure, fracture and damage accumulation. Fatigue. Creep and creep rupture. Fractography. Design considerations in materials selection.

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Metallic and Ceramic Powders Processing.

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Powder metallurgy and ceramic processing. Fabrication, characterization and properties of powders. Powder consolidation techniques. Sintering and densification mechanisms. Properties of porous compacts. Design of fabrication process. Particularities and classification of ceramic systems.

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Electronic Properties of Materials.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Electrons as particles and waves, Schrodinger's Equation, electrical and thermal conductivity, semiconductors, semiconductor devices, fundamentals of magnetism, superconductivity and superconductive materials, dielectric materials, optical properties of materials, LASERs and waveguides. Advanced materials and their technological applications. An introduction to quantum mechanics will be included which will be the foundation upon which energy band diagrams will be built and understood.

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Engineering Biomaterials.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Key definitions, clinical need, desired materials properties, current and future materials, materials assessments and performance. Materials of the body. Characterisation techniques for bulk and mechanical properties of biomaterials. Engineering processing and design of biomaterials.

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Introduction to Computational Materials Design.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to modelling and simulation techniques in materials engineering: quantum mechanics and atomistic simulation (i.e. Monte-Carlo and Molecular Dynamics). These modelling and simulations methods provide new and efficient tools to examine and predict various physical and mechanical properties of materials, enabling bottom-up design of materials and structures starting from quantum and atomistic level. These computational tools play an increasingly important role in modern materials engineering. Fundamental theories behind materials modelling and hands-on training on various modelling software.

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Solid Mechanics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.

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Introduction to Signals and Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Review of complex functions. Discrete-and continuous-time signals, basic system properties. Linear time-invariant systems, convolution. Fourier series and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain analysis, filtering, sampling. Laplace transforms and inversion, transfer functions, poles and zeros, solutions of linear constant-coefficient differential equations, transient and steady-state response. Z-transforms.

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Mechanics 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Particle dynamics: force-momentum and work-energy approaches. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.

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Statistics and Measurement Laboratory.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to probability: conditional probability, binomial and Poisson distributions, random variables, laws of large numbers. Statistical analysis associated with measurements; regression and correlation. Basic experimental laboratory techniques, including the measurement of strain, pressure, force, position, and temperature.

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Design Graphics for Mechanical Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to essential modern engineering design graphics skills. Basic knowledge of design graphics projection theory; perspective projections. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software and 3D parametric solid modeling techniques. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly methods. Standard geometric dimensioning and tolerancing techniques and their applications in the engineering drawings and engineering design.

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Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Numerical techniques for problems commonly encountered in Mechanical Engineering are presented. Chebyshev interpolation, quadrature, roots of equations in one or more variables, matrices, curve fitting, splines and ordinary differential equations. The emphasis is on the analysis and understanding of the problem rather than the details of the actual numerical program.

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Fluid Mechanics 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Physical properties of fluids. Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: stress in a continuum, rates of strain, rotation. Control volume analysis; conservation of mass, linear momentum and energy; Euler and Bernoulli equations; Flow measurement. Dimensional analysis and dynamical similarity. Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers.

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Principles of Manufacturing.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Theory and practice of modern manufacturing processes: machining, forming, and casting. Producing parts using computer assisted tools from CAD to CNC machining followed by measurement of part quality. Hands-on machining of parts.

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Design 2: Machine Element Design.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The design of machine elements for strength requirements in consideration of various methods of manufacture. Synthesis of mechanical systems to fulfill performance requirements, following the engineering design process. Static and fatigue failure prevention. Students form groups to work on a design project.

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Design 3: Mechanical Engineering Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Team project work typically involving the design, fabrication, verification, and application of a mechanical device/system, or experimental facility. The project work is complemented with lectures in the Fall term on topics related to design and management of design projects. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality.

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Design 3: Mechanical Engineering Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See MECH 463D1 for course description.

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Materials Science and Engineering.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Structure properties and fabrication of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites; engineering properties: tensile, fracture, creep, oxidation, corrosion, friction, wear; fabrication and joining methods; principles of materials selection.

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Introduction Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course considers issues relevant to the design of robotic and of intelligent systems. How can robots move and interact. Robotic hardware systems. Kinematics and inverse kinematics. Sensors, sensor data interpretation and sensor fusion. Path planning. Configuration spaces. Position estimation. Intelligent systems. Spatial mapping. Multi-agent systems. Applications.

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Linear Systems and Control.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Modelling and simulation of control systems, review of LTI systems, time response of first and second order systems, state space modeling, controllability, state feedback and pole placement, observability, observer design, and output feedback, block diagrams and their simplification, Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion, system type and steady state errors, Bode plots, Nyquist plots, Nyquist stability criterion, gain and phase margins, lead-lag compensators. Lab work involving step response, frequency response, system identification, state feedback, output feedback, and lead-lag compensators.

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Electric Machinery.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Electric and magnetic circuits. Notions of electromechanical energy conversion applied to electrical machines. Basic electrical machines - transformers, direct-current motors, synchronous motors and generators, three phase and single phase induction machines. Elements of modern electronically controlled electric drive systems.

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Design 1: Conceptual Design.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to design. Problem formulation, idea generation, feasibility study, preliminary design, design, analysis, design evaluation, project management, and optimal design.

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Dynamics of Mechanisms.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

First principles of analysis; motion; position; displacement; velocity; acceleration; force; inertia and its effects. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid bodies in pure rotation and in pin-connected systems; dynamic balance. Rigid bodies in rolling contact; planetary gear-trains. Bodies in sliding contact; lower and higher sliding pairs.

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Mechanics 3.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Single-degree-of-freedom systems; free vibrations; effect of damping; response to harmonic, periodic and arbitrary excitation. Lagrange's equations of motion. Vibrations of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Continuous systems.

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Mechanics of Deformable Solids.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Modern phenomenological theories of the behaviour of engineering materials. Stress and strain concepts and introduction to constitutive theory. Applications of theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity. Introduction to finite element stress analysis method and its application to structural design of a machine element.

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Thermodynamics 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Generalized thermodynamics relations. Real gas effects, gas tables, dense gas equations of state and generalized compressibility, enthalpy, and entropy charts. Vapour and gas power cycles (coal/nuclear power plants). Refrigerators and heat pumps. Psychrometry and air conditioning processes. Thermodynamics of reactive gas mixtures.

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Heat Transfer.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Basic concepts and overview. Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Fin Theory. Convective heat transfer: governing equations; dimensionless parameters; analogy between momentum and heat transfer. Design correlations for forced, natural, and mixed convection. Heat exchangers. Radiative heat transfer: black- and gray-body radiation; shape factors; enclosure theory. Thermal engineering design project.

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Applied Electronics and Instrumentation.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Discrete and integrated components, both analogue and digital. Characteristics of passive elements. Semiconductors, amplifiers, filters, oscillators, modulators, power supplies and nonlinear devices. Introduction to digital electronics. Transducer/signal conditioner interfacing considerations.

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System Dynamics and Control.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Modelling of physical linear time-invariant systems using transfer functions. Transient and steady-state response specifications. State space representation of systems. Frequency-response characterization. Stability. Feedback control systems. PID controller design. Root locus and frequency response design methods. Lead, lag and PID compensators.

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Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Historical development and applications of robotic manipulators. Homogeneous transformations and geometry. Forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator Jacobian. Newton-Euler and Lagrangian formulations of inverse and forward dynamics. Trajectory planning for pick-and-place operations. Linear independent joint control and nonlinear model-based control schemes.

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Mechanics of Robotic Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.

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Anthropology of Development.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.

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Biotechnology Ethics and Society.

Terms offered: Winter 2026

Examination of particular social and ethical challenges posed by modern biotechnology such as benefit sharing, informed consent in the research setting, access to medical care worldwide, environmental safety and biodiversity and the ethical challenges posed by patenting life.

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Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Economics of the Environment.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.

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Economics of Climate Change.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.

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Society, Environment and Sustainability.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.

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Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development.

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Environmental Systems.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.

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Global Change: Past, Present and Future.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments.

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Environmental Management 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.

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Strategies for Sustainability.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.

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Biomedical Ethics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)

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Religious Ethics and the Environment.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.

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Technology and Society.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology.

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Sociology of Work and Industry.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The development of the world of work from the rise of industrial capitalism to the postindustrial age. Responses of workers and managers to changing organizational, technological and economic realities. Interrelations between changing demands in the workplace and the functioning of the labour market. Canadian materials in comparative perspective.

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Planning the 21st Century City.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The study of how urban planners respond to the challenges posed by contemporary cities world-wide. Urban problems related to the environment, shelter, transport, human health, livelihoods and governance are addressed; innovative plans to improve cities and city life are analyzed.

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History of Housing.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing.

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Technological Entrepreneurship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Concentrating on entrepreneurship and enterprise development, particular attention is given to the start-up, purchasing and management of small to medium-sized industrial firms. The focal point is in understanding the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs, resolving them, developing a business plan and the maximum utilization of the financial, marketing and human resources that make for a successful operation.

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Greek Mythology.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.

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Knowledge, Ethics and Environment.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.

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Environmental Thought.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.

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Law for Architects and Engineers.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Aspects of the law which affect architects and engineers. Definition and branches of law; Federal and Provincial jurisdiction, civil and criminal law and civil and common law; relevance of statutes; partnerships and companies; agreements; types of property, rights of ownership; successions and wills; expropriation; responsibility for negligence; servitudes/easements, privileges/liens, hypothecs/ mortgages; statutes of limitations; strict liability of architect, engineer and builder; patents, trade marks, industrial design and copyright; bankruptcy; labour law; general and expert evidence; court procedure and arbitration.

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Technology Business Plan Design.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course combines several management functional areas such as marketing, financial, operations and strategy with the skills of creativity, engineering innovation, leadership and communications. Students learn how to design an effective and winning business plan around a technology or engineering project in small, medium or large enterprises.

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Technology Business Plan Project.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Students work in teams to develop a comprehensive business plan project based on a technological or engineering innovation while utilizing site visits.

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Hispanic Civilization 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.

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Hispanic Civilization 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.

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Introduction to Labour-Management Relations.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An introduction to labour-management relations, the structure, function and government of labour unions, labour legislation, the collective bargaining process, and the public interest in industrial relations.

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History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.

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Introduction to Organizational Behaviour.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.

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Principles of Marketing.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.

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Leadership.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Leadership theories provide students with opportunities to assess and work on improving their leadership skills. Topics include: the ability to know oneself as a leader, to formulate a vision, to have the courage to lead, to lead creatively, and to lead effectively with others.

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Human Resources Management.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Issues involved in personnel administration. Topics include: human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, organization development and change, issues in compensation and benefits, and labour-management relations.

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